Facilitating the Evolution of our Collective IQ

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Facilitating the Evolution of our Collective
IQ Strategically improving our capability for
coping with complex, urgent, large-scale
problems.
Douglas C. Engelbart Accelerating-Change
Conference Stanford University, 7-Nov-04
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Life-Changing Epiphany
Just-engaged, 25-yr-old Country Kid, full of
excited thoughts about building a family Hey,
but theres also that professional career. Some
big plans there, too? (Over-does it!)
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Weeks Later Naïve Country Kids Lifetime Goal
Emerged, and Stuck!
Continuous, dedicated pursuit now for over 50
years.
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Consider a communitys Collective IQ as its
relative capability for dealing with complex,
urgent problems

• To understand them as thoroughly as possible
• To unearth the best candidate solutions
• To assess resources and operational capabilities
  and select appropriate solution commitments
• To understand how best to organize and execute
  selected approaches
• To monitor progress and adapt effectively to
  unforeseen complications. Etc.

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Collective IQEmerged As Primary Strategic Focus
CODIAK Capability
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Capabilities become a key, central
consideration

• and we find very important things to observe
  about our capabilities
• Consider how they are derived
• And how they form an infrastructure that opens
  an important perspective to our quest for
• significantly boosting
• our Collective IQ!

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Humans Capabilities Depend Upon
their Augmentation System
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Purposefully pursuing accelerated evolution of
mankinds knowledge development and application
capabilities is a HUGE CHALLENGE, and requires
very effective strategies in applying our
resources.
This Augmentation Model is valid over huge scale!
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Concurrency Scaling Up -- actually, to global
scope.
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Large-Scale Facilitated Evolution

• No one can specify the design for our future
  capability infrastructure
• Far too many of the possible improvement steps
  will change the design environment for other
  improvement candidates.
• Have to depend upon an Evolutionary Process!
• BUT, we CAN learn to FACILITATE this evolutionary
  process!

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The Worlds Organizations in Human-Tool
SpaceRepresentative distribution of worlds
societies
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Co-Evolution Frontier Human-Systems and Tool
Systems Interactively Co-Evolving

• Technology's quantum leaps generate accelerating
  rate of opportunities.
• But, human paradigms already lag behind
  opportunities.
• The scale of technology change gt
• Paradigm changes have to be accelerated
• Human skills, culture, governance already
  severely stressed
• Critically needed
• Effective Facilitation of our Co-Evolution.

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Emergent Co-Evolution FrontierOn a scale we can
barely anticipate
Where best should your organization head? .By
what route? Who else is out there?

• We need a DKR that provides the best possible
  understanding of the current and projected states
  of this frontier.
• Every member organization can then make its own
  choices about its movements into this frontier.

Best Routes?
Outposts?
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Networked Improvement Community (NIC)
An Augmented Improvement Community, Using
best-practice Collective-IQ Capability To
improve its common-choice group capability.
Knowledge Products
Intelligence Collections
Investigate collect intelligence Share
experience of using leading-edge, collective-IQ
practices. Objective provide best
understanding of the Co-Evolution Frontier for
augmenting this capability.
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Large-Scale Facilitated Evolution

• Common Goal Continuous Improvement of
  Large-Scale Collective Capabilities.
• Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) defined
  around specific areas of interest
• Prime Goal Improve Collective IQ of NICs!
• Organize NICs into a large-scale Improvement
  Infrastructure
• for facilitating the Concurrent Evolution
• of the associated Augmentation Systems.

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Central Strategy Bootstrapping
1. Currently available information about
Collective IQ 2. Best DKR/knowledge about
improving Collective IQ

• The better we get at getting better, the better
  and faster well get better.

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Bootstrapping Extension to Many NICs
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Towards Effective Facilitation Where/How to
Start our First NICs?
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The Need For AnOpen Hyperdocument System (OHS)

• To support the implementation and use of DKRs
• Open - Scaleable, evolvable, interoperable
  across domains
• Hyper - To enhance access, maneuverability,veri
  fication, study and integration.
• Document The Knowledge Container into which
  the emerging heterogeneous knowledge is captured,
  integrated, and managed.
• System - Provides a complete Community
  Knowledge Workshop

OHS - the critical missing piece
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Generalize and Extend the Hyper term

• Let Hyper mean this
• anything that new technology can bring to the
  generation, storage, processing, and portrayal of
  symbolized knowledge.
• This definition provides much more than is
  included in current Hypertext.
• E.g. High-Resolution Addressing Optional
  Viewing Heightened Mobility Powerful
  Manipulation Capabilities etc

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Other Framework Items

• Early Kickoff a DKR about example DKRs
• Open Hyperdocument System (OHS)
• Launching OHS evolution The HyperScope
• Knowledge-Workshop Architects
• Pedestrian Users High-Performance Users
• Multiple UIS Options
• High-Performance Support Teams
• Inevitable Hardcopy documents become obsolete.

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Challenges for DKR Development Use Rationale
for Building a DKR of DKRs

• Special sets of skills required for increasing
  capabilities
• Who will provide the integration linking of
  disparate information into the solid, verifiable
  DKR structures
• Properties structural principles for DKR
  knowledge containers will be critical part of DKR
  evolution
• Dynamic, seamless integration of new data while
  preserving the DKRs evolutionary history
• Assessment and rating of the organizations
  capabilities to develop and use its DKRs
• Capability Infrastructure support a wide range
  of usage capabilities, e.g. multiple user
  interfaces that reflect increasing levels of user
  expertise.

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Selected Reference Links

• Subset of pubs that are on the Web
  http//www.bootstrap.org/institute/bibliography.ht
  ml
• With Special interest in Items
  below
• 3 Augmenting Human Intellect A Conceptual
  Framework. Douglas C. Engelbart. 1962. 
• 29 Toward High-Performance Organizations A
  Strategic Role for Groupware. Douglas C.
  Engelbart. 1992.
• 32 A Draft OHS-Project Plan (The HyperScope)
  Douglas C. Engelbart. 2000.

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Argument visualization resources

• Scholarly Ontologies Projectwww.kmi.open.ac.uk/pr
  ojects/scholonto

Visualizing Argumentation (2003) www.Visualizing
Argumentation.info
Argument mapping for scholarly publishing,
scientific and public policy debates, education,
teamwork, and organisational memory.
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More Reference Links

• Extensive general listing
• http//www.usabilityvews.com/eng_by_backlinks.html
  .

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THE END!!AC Conference PresentationCreated and
Presented byDoug Engelbart